CHILL THIS WINTER WITH THE GALAXY’S GREATEST COMIC!

The 2000 AD Winter Special, published Wednesday 2 November 2005 priced £2.99, is a 64 page collection of stories focusing on new writers and artists.

Five new stories appear in the Winter Special - rising star writers and artists were given a title and a loose outline and set the challenge of coming up with a five-page opening strip that introduced the world and established the characters...

BLADE WARRIOR
Writer: Ben Counter Artist: Dave Kendall
Dark and violent fantasy as the mysterious Blade Warrior - the last of his kind - comes looking for his old master...

BONES OF EDEN
Writer: Al Ewing Pencils: Russell Hossain Inks: Lee Townsend
A post-apocalyptic world, in which mankind has literally been bombed back into the Stone Age...

EARTH WAR
Writer: Jaspre Bark Artist: Rufus Dayglo
Mankind at war with a deadly alien race on a hostile planet - and one squad of soldiers are about to become guinea pigs in a lethal experiment...

UNHOLY WARRIORS
Writer: Stu Taylor Pencils: Kev Crossley Inks: Jamie Grant
The dead have risen and are causing havoc - it's up to a team of warriors to send them back to Hell...

The Winter Special also includes two Judge Dredd stories written by John Wagner and illustrated by the winners in the Stabilo 'Design a Judge Dredd Villain' competition, as well as an all-new Rogue Trooper story by Gordon Rennie and Richard Elson, plus much, much more!